One of the activities planned for this trip to San Diego was a trip with my parents to Las Vegas! My dad turned 70 last week. Turning 70 is a big deal in Chinese culture so we wanted to do something special for him. Thus, the Vegas trip was born.
My parents found a great deal staying at the Wynn-Encore, which included two tickets to their show, Le Rêve. We were going to stay three nights, from Sunday to Wednesday, to avoid crowds (spoiler: Las Vegas was still crowded).
I haven’t been to Las Vegas for over a decade. Arriving after the six hour drive, a lot of the Strip looks the same. There’s still a castle. And a pyramid. And a pirate ship. Our hotel was new to me though. When my parents checked in they opted to upgrade our room for a small fee. They handed me the key and said it’s the 59th floor. Surely I heard that wrong, I thought. But there we went, 59 floors up the Encore building:
View from our hotel room.
The room had a lot of cool features like drapes that are button-operated and a TV in the bathroom. The free wi-fi was good too!
That night we went out to dinner in Las Vegas’s Chinatown. My parents chose Anna’s Garden, a restaurant they had been to before.
Pig hock!
The food was wonderfully authentically Cantonese: pig’s feet, steamed fish, chicken, red bean slushees (or red bean ice), hot pot rice with spareribs.
Roast Duck!
The dinner meal also included a soup for a starter (with pork) and also a dessert of sweet tapioca. Our attempt to not overeat in Vegas was smashed the first night.
We went back to our hotel and hung out, tired from the drive and full from the meal. I forgot to bring the earplugs I bought (we’re a family of snorers) but the beds were so nice we had no problem falling asleep.
Next Part: My First Las Vegas Show.. er Pinball. Yeah, Pinball.
Oh, and the photos are being uploaded to Flickr!